biography
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe
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pronunciation:
[bish]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1792–1822)
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| biography:
| Poet and political thinker, born at Field Place, near Horsham, West Sussex, S England, UK. He studied at Oxford, but was expelled for his pamphlet, The Necessity of Atheism (1811). He eloped to Scotland with Harriet Westbrook, married her and settled in Keswick, where he was influenced by William Godwin, and wrote his revolutionary poem Queen Mab (1813). He formed a liaison with Godwin's daughter, Mary, with whom he eloped (1814), and whom he married in 1816 after learning that Harriet had committed suicide. From 1818 he lived in Italy, touring with his family and friends. There he met Byron, and wrote the bulk of his poetry, including odes, lyrics, and the verse drama Prometheus Unbound (1818–19). During this tour, he was drowned in the Bay of Spezia near Livorno. |
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